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  The Monroe Doctrine forbids European powers from coloznizing in the Americas, and establishes US interest in the area.
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  China and Britain go to war over Britain's Opium exports, China loses.
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  Commodore Peryy delivers a letter from US President Filmore, sparking Japans modernization.
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  This war, between Spain and America, lasted four months and ended with Spain handing all of its colonies over to the US
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  This revolution was set of by liberals all across the country, and led by Francisco "Pancho" Villa, and Emiliano Zapata
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  This Canal cut through the isthmus of Panama and cut 9000 miles off the voyage from the east to west coasts of America